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That would tend to spoil what now stands as quite a neat sporting proposition. Of course, if you insist " "No," says I. "He don't know me and I don't know him. It's fifty-fifty. Let him come." I never have asked any odds of book agents, so why begin now? But, you can bet I didn't lose any time havin' a heart to heart talk with Vincent.
"Then the Chamber of Deputies met and voted the Frenchman and the Englishman back their forfeited earnest money; and they gave me back my checks, and I wrote new ones for the same amount and split the swag fifty-fifty between the two nations for the care of their wounded. Then I gave a dinner aboard the submarine, and President Poincare was present.
I can't pay for many electric signs for you, but still if you'll plant your heart in my cut-trunk I'll guarantee there won't be any excess and I'm making money enough to O.K. most of your extras. "Listen, Party, we'll split my salary fifty-fifty every Saturday night. I got good backing in the bank, and I want you to be my little star. You angel!" Wasn't that sweet?
"Sure," said Mr. Crocker. "Say, listen. If you take me now, Buck's got to come across. I like Buck, but I'm not going to let myself be kidnapped for his benefit. It's fifty-fifty, or nothing doing. See?" "I get you, kid." "Well, if that's understood, all right. Give me a minute to get some clothes on, and I'll be with you." "Don't make a noise," said Mr. Crocker. "Who's making any noise?
You won't go wrong if you bring me in, even at fifty-fifty, because maybe I know things about old Huang that you don't know." The Jew's expression changed subtly, and beneath his drooping lids he glanced aside at the speaker. Then: "It's no promise," he said, "but what do you know?" Poland bent farther over the table. "Chinatown's being watched again.
The cool, steady eyes of Dingwell met the imperious ones of the other man in a long even gaze. "Nothing doing, Hal." "Even split, Dave. Fifty-fifty." The sitting man shook his head. "I'll split the reward with you when I get it. The sack goes back to the express company." "We'll see about that." Rutherford turned to his son and gave brisk orders. "Bring up the horses. We'll get out of here.
They've brought their vision back with them to civilian life, despite the lost arms and legs which they scarcely seem to regret; their souls still triumph over the body and the temporal. As they hobble through the streets of London, they display the same gay courage that was theirs when at zero hour, with a fifty-fifty chance of death, they hopped over the top for the attack.
My money will go for leases, and I'll let drilling contracts, fifty-fifty, sixty-forty, seventy-thirty anything to get quick action. Other people's money will do the work for me. Remember, I'm not after oil, I'm after a man." "I'll say you are!" Stoner looked up from a frowning contemplation of the maps.
"And it's understood: you're to lift the stuff, I'm to take care of it till we can slip ashore, we're to make our getaway together and the split's to be fifty-fifty, fair and square?" "I ask nothing better." "Where's your hand?" Two hands found each other blindly and exchanged a firm and inspiring clasp while Lanyard gave thanks for the night that saved his face from betraying his mind.
He whistled for a time. Then he sang, over and over, to a tune of his own, "Up above the world so high, like a di'mond in the sky." This display of Wagg's hopeful belief that the fifty-fifty settlement was near at hand served to increase Vaniman's despondency.
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